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Resources minister Madeleine King has told the National Press Club that Australian industry will remain reliant on gas for the foreseeable future, and has defended the national gas reservation scheme as a measure that will push down power prices. She stopped short of putting a price tag on gas under the proposal or predicting when households and businesses would see financial relief.
Greens leader David Shoebridge has warned the Ukrainian-Australian community not to alienate the minor party during a tense meeting over its opposition to military aid for Ukraine, as internal divisions deepen with Senator Sarah Hanson-Young breaking ranks to support arming the country. Shoebridge is scheduled to meet Ukrainian ambassador Vasyl Myroshnychenko on Friday in an effort to contain the backlash.
A New South Wales coroner has found that a wait of at least 305 days for mental health support likely contributed to the death of an inmate who took his own life in his cell at Junee Correctional Centre.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has undercut Treasurer Jim Chalmers in a move that deepens signs of strain in their working relationship, as Labor faces mounting pressure from a resurgent One Nation and growing economic discontent.
The leader of the youth wing of India's Cockroach Janata party, Abhijeet Dipke, was detained by Delhi police on Friday, intensifying a government crackdown on a protest movement that has become a major challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government. Dipke was picked up ahead of a planned demonstration in central Delhi where he had called on supporters to wave the Indian flag.
A Coalition-Greens-One Nation alliance has effectively killed the Albanese government's plan to wind back private health insurance rebates for Australians aged 65 and over, with the Senate discharging the bill on Tuesday. Health Minister Mark Butler has vowed to reintroduce identical legislation on Thursday, calling the move an "absolute travesty."
Independent Senator Jacqui Lambie has told the Senate that a hidden recording device found in the shower facilities of a Royal Australian Navy ship may have captured footage that was uploaded online before the device was discovered, prompting an investigation by military police and civilian authorities.
Federal Resources Minister Madeleine King has announced new laws forcing large gas exporters to reserve 20 per cent of extracted gas for the domestic market, a move aimed at addressing high energy prices in eastern Australia but which has drawn a cautious response from Western Australia, where a longstanding 15 per cent reservation policy already exists.
Four rural doctors have written to South Australia's health minister warning that a new six-month birthing trial at two Mid North hospitals is "unsafe" and "unsustainable", with the rotating model taking effect this week amid ongoing midwifery shortages.
Resources Minister Madeleine King has said nationalising the Perth-based heavy rare earths company Northern Minerals is an option for the government, as China-linked investors continue to defy federal orders to sell their stakes in the strategically sensitive miner.
Turkish police raided the Istanbul headquarters of opposition-aligned broadcaster Halk TV on Wednesday, halting live broadcasts, barring employees from entering the building, and issuing 17 arrest warrants linked to the channel's owner, in the latest crackdown on media critical of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's government.
Gwent Police is considering hiring detectives on zero-hours style contracts to cope with what the chief constable described as an 'unprecedented' number of murder investigations. The force has launched 11 murder probes in the past 10 months, far exceeding its typical annual rate of two or three.
Wallabies coach Les Kiss has moved star prop Angus Bell to the bench for Saturday's Bledisloe Cup rematch with the All Blacks in a bid to avoid a second-half fade-out, while first-choice playmaker Carter Gordon faces a fitness test that will shape next month's Nations Championship campaign.
The wife of one of the AFL's most powerful executives has publicly expressed discomfort over North Melbourne's decision to trade for Nick Blakey, who remains the subject of an ongoing Victoria Police investigation into alleged sexual assault. Felicity Harley, an author and founder of Women's Health magazine, commented 'Struggling with this ...' on an Instagram post from the account Not All Clubs Media, which highlighted the apparent contradiction of a player linked to a sexual assault investigation receiving a multi-million dollar deal.
The City of Perth has reappointed former chief executive Garry Hunt for a 12-month term, stepping into the role left vacant after the council sacked Michelle Reynolds. The appointment was endorsed at a special council meeting on Tuesday night.
A Democrat running for a local council seat in Indiana has become an internet sensation after a televised forum descended into a slurred, disjointed monologue in which she promised to fire all Republicans and warned 'we have guns too'.
The Australian government will introduce its Digital Duty of Care Bill to parliament this week, legislation that would make platforms legally responsible for creating a 'safe online environment' protecting users from 'seriously harmful material and conduct'. Researchers are warning the bill's definition of serious harm is fundamentally flawed and could block vital drug and sex education content, undermining the government's own public health strategies.
The gap in health spending between metropolitan and rural Australia has blown out to $9.23 billion, an increase of almost $2.7 billion in two years, according to a report warning that millions of country residents face chronic doctor shortages and poorer health outcomes.
The federal government has announced consultation on reforms that could see perpetrators of financial abuse held liable for tax and social security debts they create as a form of coercive control, with courts potentially given greater flexibility to transfer such debts to the abusive spouse in family law proceedings.
A mother charged over the alleged criminal neglect of a baby boy found dead inside a motel room in Adelaide had previously been reported missing in New South Wales five years ago with another child, police have said.
The Northern Territory government will permanently legalise pepper spray for self-defence and allow 16- and 17-year-olds to buy and carry it with parental authorisation, following a trial that Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro said had a "99 per cent success rate."
The NSW Supreme Court jury trying former Sydney police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon has been told he previously visited the Bungonia farm where he allegedly tried to sink the bodies of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies in a dam, months before the couple were killed.
Radio station 2GB has recorded an interview between breakfast host Ben Fordham and Ben Roberts-Smith ahead of the former commando's landmark trial on five charges of the war crime of murder, with lawyers reviewing the material before it goes to air.
Council red tape is stymieing the right to protest in Australia, a report has found, after Bathurst regional council told a protest organiser she needed a $20m public liability insurance policy to hold a rally in a park. The report, released on Wednesday and co-authored by the Australian Democracy Network and Deakin University's Centre for Law as Protection, also raised concerns about the power of some councils to fine public gatherings held without a permit.
The family of Jayda Allen Bonner, the 21-year-old Yagera woman found dead in a Carlton apartment complex on Saturday, say they are "absolutely crushed and shattered" by her death as a 31-year-old man faces court charged with her murder.
In a field in eastern Ukraine that was occupied by Russian forces four years ago, civilians are now painstakingly digging out landmines by hand. The work, undertaken by volunteers such as 58-year-old Olena Kabanova in the Kharkiv region, reflects the immense scale of contamination that makes vast areas of the country unusable for farming and daily life.
Human rights groups have raised alarm after reports that a 23-year-old Iranian woman, Najmeh Amini, has been sentenced to death for blasphemy over a social media post. She is also serving a separate prison term of more than 12 years on charges including acting against national security.
A federal judge late Tuesday indefinitely extended his block on the Trump administration's ban of CNN, MS Now and Politico from the White House complex, ruling that the three outlets are likely to succeed on due process and First Amendment claims in their pending lawsuit. The preliminary injunction by US District Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee, replaces a temporary restraining order issued in September.
A court in eastern China has sentenced three members of a criminal syndicate to death for running a network of scam centres in Myanmar that generated more than $1.8 billion through fraud, drug trafficking, illegal casinos, and murder.
Florida carried out the execution of James Robertson, 63, on Tuesday, the state's first lethal injection since Tennessee's botched attempt to kill Christa Pike in September intensified scrutiny of capital punishment procedures. Robertson was pronounced dead at 12:32 pm after receiving a three-dose series of lethal drugs at a state prison in Raiford, according to corrections spokesperson Jordan Kirkland, who said the process occurred 'without incident.'
Suspected cholera cases in Yemen have tripled in the past three weeks, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned, as renewed fighting drives more than 200,000 people from their homes into unsanitary displacement camps.
MI5 director general Sir Ken McCallum has warned that artificial intelligence has the potential to "change the stakes" for bioweapons development, as his annual threat update painted a picture of an increasingly diverse and dangerous security landscape encompassing far-right terrorism, state-sponsored plots from Iran and Russia, and AI-powered risks.
One Nation NSW leader Mike Newman briefly crashed question time on Wednesday before being escorted from parliament, as Premier Chris Minns stepped up pressure on the populist party to have its policies costed and warned they risked fuelling inflation.
Argentina has filed a legal claim with the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) seeking to stop oil and gas exploration north of the Falkland Islands, escalating a sovereignty dispute with the United Kingdom. The request aims to block activity Buenos Aires says was authorised 'illegally' by London.
Queensland Premier David Crisafulli has rejected suggestions his government pushed Brisbane 2032 organising committee chief executive Cindy Hook out of the role, after reports she felt "suffocated" by the administration and had misgivings about the controversial insistence that rowing and canoe events be held on the Fitzroy River in Rockhampton.
Two men have been seriously injured after armed fighting broke out in the remote Northern Territory community of Palumpa, 350 kilometres southwest of Darwin, while violent unrest in the nearby troubled community of Wadeye has flared up again, with police arresting a 20-year-old man arrested in connection with the Palumpa incident.
The IMF's latest World Economic Outlook, released on Tuesday under the title "Resilience Under Strain, Urgent Choices", has slightly downgraded Australia's growth forecasts for the next two years while still expecting inflation to fall below 3% by next year. Writing in The Guardian's Grogonomics column, Greg Jericho argues the choices the IMF wants made are ones a government hoping to win an election would likely ignore.
A 14-year-old student at Clay High School near Jacksonville, Florida, has been arrested for writing a school shooting threat on a bathroom wall and then reporting it to school administrators, according to the Clay County Sheriff’s Office.
US President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that Taiwan has agreed to purchase 30% of the gas from the proposed Alaska LNG project for the next 20 years, a move he said would ensure the pipeline's viability. The announcement came during a campaign rally in Alaska, but the specific terms of the agreement were not immediately clear.
Jamaica received its first flight of third-country deportations from the United States on Tuesday, when 22 deportees arrived in Kingston. The arrival activates a memorandum signed in June and deepens the Caribbean's role in an expanding US deportation network that human rights groups say raises legal concerns.
Colombia's Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) on Tuesday indicted 10 former members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity for systematic abuses against five Indigenous groups in the southeast of the country between 1996 and 2016.
A 32-year-old Chinese microbiology graduate student at the University of Wyoming has been arrested on charges she poisoned a colleague's tea with a chemical purchased on eBay, then tried to flee to China after police questioned her. Aili Wang was taken into custody at Los Angeles International Airport on October 6 and remains jailed without bail, according to court documents.
Manchester United defender Lisandro Martinez launched a blistering attack on the club's board after Tuesday's 2-0 Champions League defeat to Atletico Madrid, saying he expected more investment in the squad and pointing to 'other areas' beyond the manager as responsible for the team's worst start to a league season in 40 years. Former United striker Wayne Rooney said Martinez's comments were excessive and should have been kept internal.
Test cricket great Steve Waugh has urged Australia’s selectors to stop “messing around” and give the batting order consistency, days after the team crushed South Africa by 214 runs in Durban to open the three-match series. Waugh’s call comes as captain Pat Cummins indicated the side may reshuffle its top seven for the second Test starting Sunday in Gqeberha.
Former federal treasurer Josh Frydenberg has again been asked whether he will stand at the next federal election, this time by ABC journalist Leigh Sales, at the Sydney launch of his memoir. The question was held until the closing minutes of the event, and the column reporting the exchange is headlined around his answer: 'Next year'.
Television commercials funded by US taxpayers and featuring former President Donald Trump continued airing on Monday, October 12, the day after a federal judge ordered them to be cancelled. US District Judge Jennifer Rochon issued a temporary restraining order on Sunday evening, ruling that the ads likely violate a US law prohibiting government-funded publicity or propaganda.
Mauritius has imposed a curfew across parts of the country after a police officer's shooting of a woman triggered public unrest overnight, with protesters burning tyres and blocking roads in the capital, Port Louis.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin have reached an agreement on legislation that would ban horse-drawn carriages in Central Park, ending a tourist tradition that has operated for more than 150 years. The bill is scheduled for a City Council vote on October 22 and, if passed, would take effect on June 1, 2028.